I saw a pretty interesting van/RV project which actually had sizable amount of solar panels. About 8kW worth. They unfold and can be manually tilted and tracked to follow the sun roughly in the sky.
It’s pretty interesting. That much solar (with 140kWh of battery!) is more than sufficient to allow totally off-grid living and trips to the store. Now THAT would be interesting, if you could get the bugs worked out and mass produce it cheaply.
(It’s really hard to find affordable flexible solar panels. Regular solar panels weigh 3 times as much for the same power but cost a third as much in wholesale. Anyway know of cheap flexible solar panels, ie 50¢/Watt or so?)
It’s pretty interesting. That much solar (with 140kWh of battery!) is more than sufficient to allow totally off-grid living and trips to the store. Now THAT would be interesting, if you could get the bugs worked out and mass produce it cheaply.
(It’s really hard to find affordable flexible solar panels. Regular solar panels weigh 3 times as much for the same power but cost a third as much in wholesale. Anyway know of cheap flexible solar panels, ie 50¢/Watt or so?)
Link to the solar van/RV: https://youtu.be/5uUh23GDW08